Jeanie Bottle 710
Huh. So Jeanie does have a heart. At least a little.
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Well Jean solved his problem with no magic, I guess. Excited for the weeklong updates for I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle.
This may be the nicest thing Jean has done in quite awhile.
Eventually, even a blind squirrel will find a nut.
I sense a bit of Deja Vu coming on.
“And what happened then, well, in Whoville they say, that the Grinch’s small heart grew three sizes that day.”
In that case, would this means that Jean had undo the other dweebs’ wishes too or just made them forget about meeting her?
I’ve doubled-checked; apparently Jean said no take-backs so they’ll probably forget how things got as they did.
Jean is utterly disturbing here. Even her ‘pet the dog’ moment just serves to highlight how she can ruin lives or nudge them along helpfully all to her whim.
“Ruin lives or nudge them along helpfully” So can we all, my friend. So can we all.
Genies are spirits of fire and often mercurial and volatile. Handle with care.
Actually, that’s the Iffrit. the Djinn are air, not fire.
Technically correct… but tell that to Shula when she gives you her eyes of rage. (Page 588, panel 3).
Yes. Jeanie is an extremely powerful and chaotic force of (super)nature.
She’s the one who almost got her bottle drilled by three douchebags who refused to admit who actually first picked up her bottle. She was then magnanimous enough to grant all three of them three wishes, which *they* made. The only one she even really twisted was this guy’s wish, since she seemingly reversed the subject of the wish.
Ooh, I really like the name of the coffee shop.
Lets see what happens when dweeb 3 makes some idle wishes.
Granted *one* wish.
I’m wondering what happens when Neil gets home. One of his roommates is now a “super hot” girl with a gold plated bong and a fast car, another has a throne of cash and also has a better car, and the third seems to have some mild amnesia.
Neil doesn’t need to be Sherlock to figure out what’s happened….so will he try to get Jeanie to undo all this?
Good question. This would be the first time Neil would be aware of a ka-change he hadn’t seen in person (the Duke boys being the exception). Seeing this, will he ask the question… “Who else have to transformed?”
1. That red headed kid that went to Melvin’s school (Clarence/Tiffany)
2. That random DHS agent (Agent Anderson)
3. Those random Greek fishermen (Georgiana and Thea)
4. Maybe even Kendra, although that was just figure enhancement.
If she answers that question, will Neil demand that she changes them all back?
I really hope not as most of them have adjusted to their new lives by now.
Given that they have forgotten about Jeanie, and are therefore unlikely to blab, there is no need to take away the material gifts (gold bong, cars, money), but Neil probably will insist on Red Shirt getting changed back.
I am gonna guess (since it wraps up the storyline, and Jeanie’s problem with roommates) that while they forgot the “how” of it, Green Dude and Red Dudette suddenly found themselves to be mysteriously rich beyond imagination, left a note saying they were leaving, and called Orange Dude with that info. Orange Dude handles it in stride, since he’s gonna be distracted with his new girlfriend for a while.
Neil comes home to find that he no longer has roommates, and Jeanie “takes care of” any rent issues that he might have as a result.
That all seems possible, though I’m not clear on why the coffee shop guy would leave.
Honestly it’s always seemed odd to me that a NASA engineer needs that many roommates. Government jobs don’t pay as well as the private sector but he should be doing well enough to afford his own place….maybe he’s just that cheap. This could be a way for the author to get rid of the roommates while having some genie-created fun?
if you like your roommate and want to save some money why not continue to live with them?
build your savings for when you want to buy a house and or start a family and or retire
afford a nice car or what not
nah, makes great sense
bonus, you don’t live alone and don’t get as lonely
I just went back and looked at comic 699 when red shirt guy made his wishes. We can see Jeanie outside the window wearing the same clothes she is wearing now. I wonder with the granting of the third guy’s wish about forgetting her if she accidentally sent herself back in time. I am suggesting this because of the confused/surprised look on her face. After all, how much time has passed? Maybe an hour at most, and I doubt it has been that much. Probably closer to twenty minutes.
Maybe Neil finally shows some backbone and tells Jeanie to fix it…. and she goes back in time to change the outcome of the wishes?
“I wonder with the granting of the third guy’s wish about forgetting her if she accidentally sent herself back in time.”
I would propose that she knows her bottle is missing and just pops back in time to collect it.
I’m thinking that she went back and ‘poofed’ it to keep Red Shirt from grabbing it and claiming it.
Jeanie, since you did a good unselfish deed today Santa will visit you on Christmas Eve after all. Merry Christmas
Wait – Jeanie did something nice for no reason!!!
The world is about to end!!!
I’m looking forward to the daily episodes as today’s strip has so much unfinished business with the three guys.
see someone showing some holiday spirit
She did help Neil play Santa in a previous story.
Say, if you guys are going for a week of “Jeanie Bottle” updates, why not toss in a “WolfPac” with it?
CD hasn’t had time to dedicate to Wolfpac recently. Not least because the pages require about 3 times more art per page than Jeanie Bottle, so it’s a lot of extra effort.
CD is actually pretty good here, this wraps up about like an episode of the TV show would have. lots of loose ends you have to use your imagination for, everything is back to more or less normal for the next storyline.
Why do you assume anything is wrapped up?
Will the orande shirt guy hook up with the cute red head with the short skirt?
Will Bella dump t-shirt guy with the coffee stain?
Will green shirt guy get busted for income tax evasion?
Will red shirt ( new girl ) learn how to walk in three inch heels?
what will Jeanie give Neil for Christmas?
would love to see the new group navigate their lives and help their gender swapped friend through things
not every guy turned into a girl wants it and might need help
seriously how common is gender swapping and magic that a federal agent can keep their badge after being changed into a completely different person?
love to see a story about life post change that is about learning to live with the change and not really wanting it
I covered a little of that in a fanfic.
https://jeaniebottle.com/archives/comic/fan-takeover-agent-anderson
Well, the story takes place in a world where there are apparently several thousand genies out there granting wishes to people, which implies that there are hundreds of thousands of people who have encountered genie magic. Their world also has thousands of Bewitched-style witches living behind the scenes. It is quite plausible that, deep in the bowels of most major governments, there exist people tasked with dealing with magical stuff.
The government probably knows about magic and actively tries to cover it up. A quote from Men in Black comes to mind… just swap magic for aliens.
“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.”
Well she didn’t grant his wish then. He wished YOU would forget they ever met. She erased HIS memory but not her own. Erasing HIS memory doesn’t contradict the wish, but she needs to erase her own as well and she clearly did not or else she would be the one saying “how did I get here”.